Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Home run? That's not the right metaphor for Cuban, who at 6 ft. 2 in. is about the size of a smallish NBA guard. He would probably prefer to think of himself as launching a shot from outside the three-point circle and hitting nothing...
Though some Faculty and students suggested yesterday that the comparison to the Israeli prime minister may have been too strong, they said the general criticism behind the metaphor was on the mark...
...course, all this is true at any age. But to extend the financial metaphor, deciding to have her family while she's in her 20s changes a woman's investment horizon. A younger mother has more time in the bank: more time to conceive successfully, more time to start, restart or change careers when she's ready. But she also has less in the real bank, and in these days of high college costs, she may have a significant debt load. She will have clocked few years in her career, so she will either have to nurture a new life...
...Julie L. Rattey ’02, who is so touching as Lavinia, that one wishes her hands and tongue might not have been removed and that she could remain to charm the audience with her abundant talent. Then again, performers without limbs or tongues seem an apt metaphor for this Titus—no matter how hard they try, the actors have been handicapped by the production surrounding them...
...Dorit Raninyan, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Random House: June 25), giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling and the visceral sexuality of her characters suggest something more like Jeffrey Eugenide's 'Virgin...